FTCE Professional Education Practice Test Questions with 100

A social studies teacher asks the students in the class how they could use the word HOMES to help them remember the names of the Great Lakes: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. The students quickly recognize that the first letters of the names of the lakes can be arranged to spell HOMES. This approach to memorizing information best exemplifies using A. an acronym B. chunking C. rehearsal D. rote - correct answer A During a class discussion, for which of the following purposes would it be appropriate for a teacher to ask a closed-ended questions? A. to check for agreement among students B. to encourage brainstorming C. to probe for more information D. to foster creativity - correct answer A After reading essays students have written, a sixth-grade language arts teacher consults a colleague about how to improve the quality of students' writing assignments. The teacher's decision to ask a colleague for help illustrates which of the following principles? A. Teachers need to understand the importance of being reflective practitioners. B. Teachers should actively engage in group processes to make decisions. C. Teachers should know how to encourage student achievement of desired outcomes. D. Teachers need to stay abreast of current knowledge and practices. - correct answer A Which of the following actions should the teacher take at the end of a computer simulation activity to promote students' evaluation-level thinking? A. Give a short quiz over the vocabulary encountered during the simulation activity. B. Have a whole-class discussion in which students are asked to tell why they did or did not like the simulation activity. C. Have students write a paragraph explaining how they participated in the simulation activity. D. Have students work in groups to make a list of concepts they learned from the simulation activity. - correct answer B Students in a fourth-grade class are making drawings to illustrate their writing projects. The teacher observes a few students who are artistically talented making rude comments about the drawings of their classmates who are less artistically inclined. The teacher immediately lets the rude students know that such behavior will not be tolerated. The best follow-up response from the teacher to this situation is to A. allow students the option of downloading free clip art from the Internet to illustrate their writing project B. assign the rude students to work one-on-one with their classmates who are less artistically inclined to help them create better drawings. C. have students who make rude comments stay after class and talk with them about respecting others. D. hold a class meeting to establish consequences for rude behavior and enforce the consequences consistently - correct answer A